It led to a rightful outpouring of anger and shock across the world, including in the black community here in the UK: an ocean may separate us from America, but we still have a long way to go until we feel safe here, and equal before the law. It seemed to me an astonishing trivialisation in a country where police violence against the black community is an endemic problem - something brought home all too horribly in May by the tragic death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. Rita Ora has been accused of ‘blackfishing’ by Twitter users who discovered her Albanian roots in a social media storm on Monday. Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images After learning of Ora's Albanian parentage in 2020, fans called the singer out for choosing. I’m certainly no fan of Kylie’s sister Kendall, after she made the astonishing decision three years ago to film an advert for Pepsi in which she hands a can of Pepsi to a police officer in the middle of a protesting crowd - suggesting that all the tensions between the police and protestors can be solved by this simple gesture. Rita Ora attends Capital FM's Jingle Bell Ball on December 7, 2019. Rita Ora has at least 9 known tattoos: writing on her finger. 14 Nana was astonished by Kendall "trivial" appearance in the famous Pepsi ad Credit: Video Grabĭon’t get me wrong, there are plenty of occasions when I think celebrities have been guilty of overstepping the mark when it comes to casually adopting the cultures of others, among them the Kardashian clan, who over the years have paraded endless afro hairstyles and braids without ever once nodding to the heritage they have come from.
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